{"id":5554,"date":"2019-09-20T11:58:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T10:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/?p=5554"},"modified":"2019-09-20T11:58:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T10:58:46","slug":"kosice-alexander-medem-stages-a-new-production-of-la-traviata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/news\/kosice-alexander-medem-stages-a-new-production-of-la-traviata\/","title":{"rendered":"Ko\u0161ice: Alexander Medem stages a new production of \u201dLa traviata\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">When Giuseppe Verdi wrote his opera \u201cLa traviata\u201d, the resemblance to his own private life was evident: He was living in sin with the mother of several illegitimate children for years until he could finally marry his love in 1859.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/artists\/alexander-medem-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Alexander Medem<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0finds the key to unlocking \u201cLa traviata\u201d precisely in the similarities to the composer\u2019s life. Medem\u2019s production at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdke.sk\/sk\/opera\/giuseppe-verdi-la-traviata-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>State Theatre Ko\u0161ice<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0places the storyline into the 19th century, thus obeying Verdi\u2019s original intent. The staging highlights the conflicting interests of the individual and the society and points out that our necessities, especially that of leading our own lives by our own rules, clashed and still clashes with society\u2019s conventions and expectations.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdke.sk\/sk\/opera\/giuseppe-verdi-la-traviata-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>State Theatre Ko\u0161ice<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nMusical direction: Vinicius Kattah, Igor Dohovi\u010d<br \/>\nStage direction:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexandermedem.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexander Medem<\/a><br \/>\nSets, costumes, props: Katharina Heistinger<br \/>\nChoreography: Tomas Danielis<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">2019:\u00a0<strong>October 4th (premi\u00e8re)<\/strong>, 5th, 9th, 10th; November 6th; December 7th<br \/>\n2020: January 14th; February 4th; March 29th; June 3rd<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>We are happy to reserve your tickets!<br \/>\nJust drop us a line at alexander@alexandermedem.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Giuseppe Verdi wrote his opera \u201cLa traviata\u201d, the resemblance to his own private life was evident: He was living\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"class_list":["post-5554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-september-2019-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5555,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554\/revisions\/5555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estherschollum.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}